WC never though about that before, interesting questions. I imagine everything happens so fast during a play that you wouldn’t have time to react to someone talking in your ear.
With regards to spiking, maybe its because the QB is throwing the ball behind the line of scrimmage.
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
2 Very Important Questions:
Why isn’t it intentional grounding when the QB spikes/clocks the ball to stop the clock?
Is a QB’s headset/audio in his helmet left on during plays or only during the huddle? By this I mean can a head coach or offensive coordinator talk to their QB during a play? point out WR’s or call out a blindside pass rusher?[/quote]
I read about this years ago and don’t remember the exact reason/ruling but spiking the ball is an exception to intentional grounding, but you can only spike from under center, not shotgun.
The helmet radio is turned off once during the play. I believe it get turned off at the snap of the ball. If I remember correctly it’s a technology thing, too, as in the signal is scrambled during live plays.
EDIT TO ADD: The phrasing of the rule of intentional grounding involves an “imminent loss of yardage.” Since there is no threat of loss of yardage on a spike, no intentional grounding. Same thing when a ball just gets away from a QB on a bad throw.
I don’t know if that was more of a great run by Lynch or just horrible tackling by the Saints defense. I’ll be honest I haven’t really watched the Saints this year. I thought their defense was suppose to be good.
Happy for Seahawk fans but if I was a Saints fan I would be livid. Their defense sucked tonight and gave away the game! Nothing against Hasselback and the Seahawk offense because they definitely brought it but the Saints defense was equally as bad.
And that last run was equally great for Lynch and equally atrocious for the Saints defense. I’ve never seen that many broken tackles in one sequence. When you play like that you deserve to be bounced from the first round. Damn! Good entertaining game however.